CDC issues bio-surveillance contract to track 14 million Americans for H1N1 under HIPAA FEMA rules

BARRINGTON, IL GE Healthcare has been selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide surveillance data for H1N1 and seasonal flu activity throughout the nation. According to GE officials, the Barrington, Ill.-based company will report daily to the CDC with information gathered from its Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC) database of nearly 14 million patient records. This will help the CDC better understand the characteristics of H1N1 outbreaks and determine trends. Participating physicians automatically contribute de-identified data to the MQIC each day through normal use of GE’s Centricity electronic medical record when they document information collected during patient visits to physician offices and clinics. The MQIC collates clinical data documented by primary-care physicians using GE’s Centricity EMR, giving the CDC tools to help track clinical symptoms such as fever, nausea and chills, prescriptions written and vaccination rates, as well as variables such as procedures performed, pregnancy and patient age, within 24 hours of being documented in thousands of participating doctors’ offices across the country. “We are pleased to help the CDC monitor this important public health issue,” said GE Healthcare IT Vice President and General Manager Jim Corrigan. “This is a strong example of the power of digitizing the nation’s medical records. With EMR data, not only are we able to accelerate the reporting of any aggregate changes to the …

Allen Doye O’Dell grew up on a Texas cotton spread and went on to raise his own crop of country hits. Uncle Tom Gregory was one of the musical members of the family, packing his fiddle on every visit. This man was O’Dell’s first music teacher, coaching him to the point where he could win a few contests. From there, O’Dell moved to the ever-popular guitar, which he played in high school. He joined a trio where he began singing, and this group played over WDAG radio in Amarillo. So began his professional career and from then on, he ditched the first name. Our man Doye O’Dell went down to the Mexican border to work on XCPM, stayed there a year and then joined Doc Snyder’s Texas Cowboys, a country vaudeville act with a wild stage show. It was O’Dell’s fiddling abilities that got him this gig, but he switched to guitar when the group took another fiddler. Going on his own, he quickly scored an NBC network radio show out of New York, Doye O’Dell & the Radio Rangers. This program ran five years, after which he was based out of Connecticut where he combined more radio with live shows at theaters all over the East Coast. He settled in Los Angeles following the second World War, where he took part in recording sessions as rhythm guitarist for many other artists. Fans of hardcore trucker country, for example, will enjoy his picking on 1947 sessions for deep-throated Johnny Bond. Shortly after these sessions, he signed a recording contract with Exclusive, who got one of his biggest …
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